...no caufc of complaint to any nation. -. i ft. Where a nation impofes high duties on ourproductions, or prohibits them altogether, it may be proper for us to do the fame by theirs, firft burthening or excluding thofe productions which they bring here in competition...

...alien duties, our fhips are exempt from them. " In the 1 7th page he fays, ' Where a nation impofes high duties on our productions, or prohibits them altogether, it may be proper to do the fame by theirs, firft burdening or excluding thofe productions which they bring here in competition...

...alien duties, our fhips are exempt from them. " In the i yth page he fays, ' Where a nation impofes high duties on our productions, or prohibits them altogether, it may be proper to do the fame by theirs, firft burdening or excluding thofe productions which they bring here in competition...

...and to offer no cause of complaint to any nation. 1st. V.'herc a nation imposes high duties on unr productions, or prohibits them altogether, it may be proper for us to do the same by theirs. First burthening or excluding those productions which they bring here, in competition with our own of the...

...instructions to report his opinion on commercial restriction!!, made 23d February, 1793, observes: — " Where a nation imposes high duties on our productions,...here in competition with our own of the same kind, imposing on those duties lighter at first, but heavier and heavier afterwards, as other channels of...

...for restrictions and vexations : nor are they likely 'to produce a relaxation of them." Again: " 1. Where a nation imposes high duties on our pro'ductions,...'for us to do the same by theirs; first burdening or exclud'mg those productions which they bring here, in competi'tion with our own of the same kind; selecting...

...protecting measures become necessary on the part of " the nation whose marine resources are thus invaded." " Where a nation imposes high duties on our productions,...may be proper for us to " do the same by theirs." " Where a nation refuses to "receive in our vessels any productions but our own, " we may refuse to...

...Mr. Jefferson's report, to which Mr. Madison's resolutions conformed, was in these words : " Wliere a nation imposes high duties on our productions, or prohibits them altogether, it may be proper far us to do the same by theirs ; firwt burdening, or excluding those productions which they bring...

...them, and diminish the people of the nation that uses them." — Franklin's Works, vol. iv. p. 189. ! " Where a nation imposes high duties on our productions,...altogether, it may be proper for us to do the same with theirs — -first burdening or excluding those productions which they bring here in competition...

...be governed. And these, he contended, to be effectual, should be exactly reciprocal and equivalent. Where a nation imposes high duties on our productions, or prohibits them altogether, we should do the same in relation to their productions. First, taking those in competition with our...